<P><BR>--- In bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Aspland" <aaspland@...> wrote:<BR>><BR>> Because the series of books finishes with the eighteenth century and I am<BR>> asking about the early twentieth century AND surely the whole point of<BR>> studying history is that there is not always one definitive answer.<BR>> Andrew<BR>></P>
<P><FONT face="arial">As your discussion point involved the book Tintinnalogia, I think most of us thought you were talking about the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial">I wasn't aware that anyone had implied there was a definitive answer, merely that some of the speculation being put forward had already been addressed by previous researchers!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial">As Chris Pickford said in an earlier posting, "do we REALLY know all the answers on this, and - anyway - isn't it fun to speculate?" I merely pointed out that is was better to speculate from the standpoint of <EM>what we know</EM>, rather than <EM>what we think we might know</EM>!</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="arial">Richard</FONT></P>